Squid practice 1-2015.

It's AWFUL that it has taken me nearly three months to make it to my first Squid practice of the year. But - it did. Alas. Strive to do better.

As it turned out, it was a weird practice, because most of the team was at a meet today. I was the ONLY swimmer there, so Coach Pat got in & worked out with me.

WU:
300 stroke (I did 50 free, 25 back or breast)
200 pull free
100 stroke (I did 25 fly/25 back/25 breast/25 back)

8 x
(50 25 drill/25 build 1:00
25 DPS :30)
odds free, evens stroke (I did back/breast)

3 x 100 free :15 R (I did ~1:30 in, 1:45 out)

BREASTSTROKE DRILLS: undulating, sculling, with flutter kick - all new-style breaststroke, which I found very challenging since I've never bothered to update my stroke.

3 x 100 free :15 R (I did ~1:30 in, 1:45 out)

MORE BREASTSTROKE DRILLS: snapping the elbows down & in on recovery, using kick to power over-water (or, near-the-top-of-the-water) arm recovery. How not to get disqualified for a butterfly kick in the breaststroke event.

3 x 75 (breast/free/free, free/breast/free, free/free/breast) :15 R (don't remember my interval)
3 x 25 breast ~:40

WD:
100 free easy

TOTAL: 2,200 yards (1.25 miles), plus some small amount of yardage during the drills.

YAY!!

#whole30 WholeLent, Day 39.

Sleep: very good. I started my pre-bedtime routine at about 10 PM (managing to pull away from Skyrim, yay!), in bed around 10:30 PM, & asleep almost immediately. I woke up just before 7 AM when a certain Puppeh tried to sneak into the bed.

Breakfast: S&SBC, bulletproof-ish coffee (Pelletproof? Arrowproof? Boltproof? What's "almost bulletproof"?), some chicken breast, strawberries. I have successfully broken out of my breakfast rut.



I went to swim practice today! First times in ages.

Post-workout snack: tuna cake, banana.

Lunch: leftover chicken adobo topped with onions, sweet potatoes, steamed broccoli. I DEMOLISHED a huge plate of food - yay, working out!

Spent a good hour or so in the park with Shadeaux.

Dinner: the rest of gumbo z'herbes, the rest of the jicama salad, & more rotisserie chicken. Yum.

Snack: apple pie Larabar & herbal tea.